STAFF

Alicia is a founder of Evidence Room Theater Project, RampArt Youth Theater Project, and BOOTLEG. She is an actress, a producer, a set designer and a mother. During her tenure as executive director of the Evidence Room, that company won 24 BACK STAGE WEST Garland Awards, 16 L.A. WEEKLY Theater Awards (among 54 nominations), and many Critic’s Pick’s and year-end Top Tens. She has personally won three LA WEEKLY awards. RampArt is an At-Risk Youth theater program that has been operating for four years. For that program she has been awarded grants from the Cultural Affairs Department of Los Angeles, the Cissy Patterson Foundation and several private donors.

Alicia co-founded BOOTLEG in 2006.  Since then the theater has produced Orphean Circus’ Pageant of the Four Seasons, a 99 cents Only modern Something! (LA WEEKLY recommended), hosted Rushforth Production’s Ladybird (LA TIMES critics pic), Alec Mapa in America’s Gaysian Sweetheart, co-produced Roger Guenvere Smith in Who Killed Bob Marley (nominated for Best of Downtown in Downtown News). The theater’s late night offerings have included Peter Nieves’ Hot Young Girls are Evil, Snatchbar, a gender-bendy speakeasy cabaret and burlesque show, Nighthawks, a monthly special event usually involving experimental music, among other things.

Jason Adams | Co-Owner and Board Member

Mr. Adams was a founding member and Executive Director of the Evidence Room Theater Project and a former Artistic Director of the Washington Shakespeare Company.  Mr. Adams designed and built the former Evidence Room theater space and upgraded the space to expand its capability for Bootleg.  Mr. Adams is also a designer and actor and has worked extensively in regional including REDCAT, the Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, the Seattle Rep, the San Jose Rep, Actors' Gang, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, Source Theater, the Washington Shakespeare Company and the Evidence Room. Mr. Adams is a member of United Scenic Artists/IATSE Local 829 and runs Alumina Design LLC a fabrication/design solution firm for architects and environmental designers.

Jessica Hanna | Producing Director

Ms. Hanna moved to Los Angeles in 1996 from Chicago, where she had worked as an actor, playwright, dancer and stage combat choreographer after receiving her BFA in Acting from DePaul University's Theatre School. In Los Angeles, as an actor, she has appeared in: Zach Helm's Chapters On American Artistry, Chuck Mee's Songs of Joy & Destitution at Open Fist, Padraic Duffy's The Mechanical Rabbit and Tell The Bees at Sacred Fools, played Kate for one glorious performance in Taming Of The Shrew for Zoo District at the Orpheum Theatre. In addition she has been in many Orphean Circus Productions, including Splendor: A 99Cent Only Wonderama, Growing With Ghosts (also ass't choreographer) & Peace Squad goes 99 (also ass't choreographer).

In 2004 she and her husband, Michael Dunn, formed Mr. & Mrs. Kickass Productions and produced Stuck In The Groovebucket by Todd Schrank at Abundant Sugar at the Brewery, which Ms. Hanna also directed. Later that year, Mr. & Mrs. Kickass produced Route 99: Orange Star Dinner Show with Orphean Circus at the Evidence Room, starring Mr. Dunn as the lead character and chef of the 4 course dinner that was served thru the course of the show. A member of the Evidence Room in '05/06, Ms. Hanna also Assoc. Produced Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (winner of the LA Weekly award for Best Revival).

As the Managing and Producing Director at Bootleg, she has produced and performed in Pageant of the 4 Seasons, A 99Cent Only Modern Something!, produced Roger Guenveur Smith's solo show Who Killed Bob Marley, Eva Anderson's Wildboy '74 (also at the NY Fringe in August '08), Lauren Weedman's solo show Bust and Adramelech's Monologue (produced with Dan Friedman). She co-produced, co-directed and performed in Week 17 of 365Days/365Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, a joint Bootleg and Mr. & Mrs. Kickass event. In 2008 she produced the newest 99¢ Only Show: Ken Roht's Calendar Girl Competition (Ovation Award Winner: Best Costume Design). In 2009 at Bootleg she was an actor in Doomsday Kiss and she produced Stranger (Nominated for 5 LA Weekly Awards and 3 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards) . And most recently she produced and performed in Project Wonderland. She oversees the production of all main stage events at Bootleg, as well as many of the late-night lobby happenings and dance events. Including most recently, Ryan Heffington's Sweaty Sundays Recital (for which she created the lighting design and also appeared as a dancer).

As an independent producer she produced with Dan Freidman, Glen Roven's Norman's Ark at the Ford Amphitheater in May/June '08, which featured a cast of 200. And for Greenway Arts Alliance was Assoc. Producer for Good Bobby when it moved to NYC in 2009.

She is a founding member and the Producing Director of the new ensemble theater group Teatro de Facto. With them she has produced Interviewing The Audience with Zach Helm. She will be producing Heidi Schreck's play Creature for Teatro de Facto in 2010.

Ms. Hanna has directed at Occidental College for 3 years in the New Playwrights Festival. For the past 9 years she has trained in Suzuki/Viewpoints with Ann Bogart, The SITI Company and Burning Wheel. Her movement choreography was featured in Furious Theater's US Drag, for which she won an LA Weekly for Production Design.
 

Susan Rubin | Education Director

Susan, Artistic Director of Indecent Exposure Theater Company, is a writer/actress/producer whose work has been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, Baltimore Center Stage, Los Angeles Theater Center, The Taper New Works Festival, ASK Common Ground Festival, LA's Music Machine, the Redcat Theater, the Road Theater, Bootleg, and in Santiago, Cuba at their Congreso Mondial, an International Theater Festival. As a documentary writer, she has created 10 short documentaries on issues of social justice and human rights which have been seen at the United Nations and in committees of the US Congress as well as throughout the US on college campuses. She has taught At Risk teens playwriting for ASK Theatre Projects, the HeArt Project, Ramparts Theater Project,  Indecent Exposure Theater Company and LAUSD.

Corbett Barklie | Director of Structural Creativity

Corbett has over 17 years of experience working with performing arts groups in Southern California and across the nation. Prior to starting her own practice, she was the founding Executive Director of Loretta Theatre. Corbett was also the Executive Director of ARTS Inc. in the mid-90’s and served as the Deputy Director of Development for Los Angeles’ Center Theater Group. She worked with the National Endowment for the Arts in their Challenge & Advancement Program as both an assessor and consultant. Since 2002, Corbett has been an Adjunct Professor in the University of Southern California, School of Theatre. She is currently working with the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency in their Arts Retention Program, is a frequent panelist for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the LA County Arts Commission, and often speaks on issues impacting the arts. Corbett has authored numerous essays on the non-profit arts community including “A New Song, Re-Identifying Non-profit Arts Groupings & Their Needs;” “The Stable;” and “Effective Dissent.”

Alan Tollefson | Technical Director

Alan Tollefson has been Technical Director, Properties Master, Master Carpenter, and Scenic Designer for Sacramento Theater Company and B Street Theater, and Scenic Designer for Vista Players, Synergy Stage, and California Stage, all in Sacramento. He is a multimedia artist who has exhibited new media works at McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, Ohio, and at Digital Media Factory and Porter Sesnon Gallery, both in Santa Cruz; sculpture at Artists Space in New York City; and performance art at Lower Links, Randolph Street Gallery, and N.A.M.E Gallery, all in Chicago. Most recently he played the role of an angry audience member in Yvonne Rainer's ROS/Indexical at Redcat Theater. A recent transplant from northern California, Alan earned an MFA in digital art and new media at University of California, Santa Cruz and a BFA studying performance art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At UCSC he was Master Carpenter in the Theater Arts Department, where he also taught classes in design, technical theater and drafting; he also taught technical theater at Sacramento City College. In 2007 Alan received a research grant from the History of Art and Visual Culture Department University of California Santa Cruz Presidential Chair Fund to support his graduate research in performative technology; he was also a UCSC Porter Fellows Award recipient. Alan was nominated for an Elly Award by the Sacramento Area Regional Theater Association for Best Actor and Best Scenic and Lighting Designer, and received an Artists in Education Grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was Artist in Residence at Harriet Tubman School, Newark, NJ.